I am a research officer working as part of the Language Attitudes Research Team. Our research aims to better understand the relationship between speaker attitudes and language use across different speech communities by using explicit and implicit methods. In a similar vein, I also specialise in attitudes towards different varieties of Welsh and how they are perceived socially. Specifically, I am interested in new speaker accents and traditional accents.

My doctoral research was in the field of language variation and change, specifically examining the sociophonetics of Cardiff Welsh. Currently I am working on the South Wales Speech project with Prof. Mercedes Durham from Cardiff University analysing the sociophonetics of different varieties of South Wales English.

I am also interested in language policy and maintenance, a field directly related to language attitudes and usage. Specifically, I have examined the language use of children, newcomers and businesses across several communities in North Wales.